The Six String Quartets

Album by Béla Bartók & New Hungarian Quartet

The Six String Quartets is a cycle of six string quartets by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed between 1908 and 1939. The cycle charts Bartók's development from late-Romantic and folk-influenced idioms to a more dissonant, modernist language characterised by modal scales, complex rhythms and extended string techniques, and it occupies a central position in the 20th-century chamber music repertoire.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    String Quartet no. 1, op. 7: I. Lento / II. Allegretto
    18:11
  2. 2.
    String Quartet no. 1, op. 7: III. Introduzione. Allegro. Allegro vivace
    11:31
  3. 3.
    String Quartet no. 3: I. Moderato
    10:13
  4. 4.
    String Quartet no. 3: II. Allegro molto capriccioso
    7:24
  5. 5.
    String Quartet no. 3: III. Lento
    8:25

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    String Quartet no. 3
    15:35
  2. 3.
    String Quartet no. 4: I. Allegro
    6:19
  3. 4.
    String Quartet no. 4: II. Pestissiomo con sordino
    3:07
  4. 5.
    String Quartet no. 4: III. Lento non troppo
    5:25
  5. 6.
    String Quartet no. 4: IV. Allegretto pizzicato
    2:59
  6. 7.
    String Quartet no. 4: V. Allegro molto
    5:48

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    String Quartet no. 5: I. Allegro
    7:32
  2. 4.
    String Quartet no. 5: II. Adagio molto
    5:48
  3. 5.
    String Quartet no. 5: III. Scherzo. Alla bulgarese (Vivace)
    5:06
  4. 6.
    String Quartet no. 5: IV. Andante
    4:50
  5. 7.
    String Quartet no. 5: V. Finale. Allegro vivace
    7:04
  6. 8.
    String Quartet no. 6: I. Mesto, Vivace
    7:24
  7. 9.
    String Quartet no. 6: II. Mesto, Marcia
    7:39
  8. 10.
    String Quartet no. 6: III. Mesto, Burletta, Moderato
    7:08
  9. 11.
    String Quartet no. 6: IV. Mesto
    6:33

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